I know this is going to be unpopular but I am friends with and I understand many Trump supporters

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157. Like you my family members are pretty much unreachable and I will not even try

However, I have friends, even good friends who voted for him. They do not consume very much news listening to sports radio rather than NPR and they all have kids that take up all of their time.

But they are pro-choice, pro-LGBT rights and while softer on racial issue than I, are by no means conscious bigots. If they were any of the previous they would not be my friends.

They are all about my age, 50ish, came up under Reagan and are still drinking the small government cool-aid and believing that low taxes will mean more and better jobs. But the health care thing has some of them spooked and it would not take divine interference to convince them that more government can mean more and better jobs.

My best approach to them has been to point out Germany and the Nordic states and how they are now richer than we are and we have been going in opposite directions since the Reagan revolution. And to remind them of tax policy back in the 50's when supposedly American was Great. Obviously we are all white or else they would know in their very souls that American was not all that great!

I even have a few of them agreeing that the death penalty is bad policy as well as morally horrific. Well, convinced that it is bad policy, not sure they share my moral revulsion of it.

The fact that I am a recent convert and left the dark side after being friends with them for decades gives me credence. They were dumbfounded when I announced I had change my politics, views and party registration.

Leading up to the election few of them loved Trump but I think they all ended up voting for him. Funny, in the last month or so they have not once wanted to bring up politics!

Have a nice evening.